| Description |
xv, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-246) and indexes. |
| Contents |
'A picture of health': women's health in historical context. Images of women's health and healing: cultural prescriptions? -- Disordered minds: women, men and unreason in thought, emotion and behaviour. Breaking and building bodies. Women and deliberate self-harm -- Women, drugs and alcohol -- Beyond health and beauty: a critical perspective on fitness culture -- Listening within: counselling women in awareness of the body. Giving women a voice: the power of health dialogues. Professional control or women's choice in childbirth? is either possible? -- Pregnant women and consent to treatment--from autonomy to state control and back again -- Long-term psychological effects of child sexual abuse -- Maternal depression and the needs of the child -- Can women with learning disabilities access good health care? a case study of cervical screening. Building health in policy and practice. Health policy and provision for maternity care in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century -- Ethnicity and inequalities in older women's health -- Discursive challenges: reproductive rights and women's well-being in developing countries. |
| Subject |
Women -- Health and hygiene.
|
|
Women's Health. |
|
Saúde. |
|
Higiene (assistência à saúde) |
|
Mulheres. |
| Added Author |
Boswell, Gwyneth.
|
|
Poland, Fiona.
|
| ISBN |
0333919696 (cloth) |
|
